Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) - WWF (Unity)
Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) - WWF (Unity)
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Level Up Your Career with Zynga!
At Zynga we bring people together through the power of play. As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive our games have been downloaded over 6 billion timesconnecting players in 175 countries through fun strategy and a little friendly competition.
From thrilling casino spins to epic strategy battles mind-bending puzzles and social word challenges our diverse game portfolio has something for everyone. Fan-favorites and latest hits include FarmVille Words With Friends Zynga Poker Game of Thrones Slots Casino Wizard of Oz Slots Hit it Rich! Slots Wonka Slots Top Eleven Toon Blast Empires & Puzzles Merge Dragons! CSR Racing Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells Match Factory and Color Block Jamplus many more!
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California our teams span North America Europe and Asia working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Whether youre spinning strategizing matching or competing Zynga is where fun meets innovationand where you can take your career to the next level.
Join us and be part of the play!
Position Overview:
Zynga is looking for a full stack engineer in the Austin or Toronto areas and more specifically someone whose level of experience should be equivalent to a Senior Software Engineer.
We have a well-rounded and tight-knit distributed team with a healthy mix of engineering skill levels and are looking to strengthen our team. We need a self-driven and motivated engineer who is a strong communicator works well as a team player and performs well under pressure of tight deadlines. The candidate would have an opportunity to work on user-facing features (including UI / UX) core gameplay functionality various backend systems and generally solve challenging problems for high profile mobile games.
Our mission is to Connect the World through Games by building a truly social experience that makes the world a better place. To be successful in this role you will have a passion for games a high level of integrity great technical depth and skills and a strong desire to build successful software.
What Youll Do:
- Define architect & develop features and gameplay functionality in Unity C# on the front end and RoR stack C# on the backend.
- Develop & integrate new technologies and tools (working with content teams)
- Dive into the internals of core systems to extend them as-needed
- Iterate on new or existing functionality and UI / UX
- Collaborate with other engineers and architect systems at scale with minimum disruption to the live game
- Support live-ops and deployments on a rotational basis
- Proactively optimize code & memory for high performance simulations with tight constraints
- Scope out large tasks and system with minimal direction
- Work closely with other engineers to lead multi-week or month-long efforts
- Give team tech talks on architectures that youve built
- Work with the lead to identify and help to improve team and process inefficiencies
What You Bring:
- . in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent education / work experience
- 5 Years game industry / mobile app experience as a software developer
- Shipped titles and/or live games experience
- Expert knowledge in C# Java Python Ruby or a similar programming language
- 2 Years Unity experience
- 1 Year backend experience with any of the RoR/Golang/C# .NET/Java/Python
- Solid foundation in data structures algorithms and software methodologies
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working in a collaborative environment
- In-depth understanding of client-server interactions
Bonus Points:
- Experience with git
- Experience with performance profiling and optimization
- Mobile development with a focus on iOS & Android
What We Offer You:
Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits visit the Zynga Benefits site
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts cultures and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment with us is based on substantive ability objective qualifications and work ethic not an individuals race creed color religion sex or gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin or ancestry alienage or citizenship status physical or mental disability pregnancy age genetic information veteran status marital status status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses reproductive health decision or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.
As an equal opportunity employer we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities health conditions or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process. Please contact us at to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.
Please be aware that Zynga does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram WhatsApp or others. Zynga also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process and will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel. Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scamp or phishing attack and you should not engage. Zyngas in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e. via a email domain).
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
